Gundam Seed Freedom Film Tops 1.8 Billion Yen in 9 Days

The Mobile Suit Gundam Seed FREEDOM anime film has sold about 1.12 million tickets and earned over 1.8 billion yen (about US$12.13 million) in its first nine days of screenings.

The film became the first Gundam film since 1988’s Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack to top the 1 billion yen mark, and earned a total of 2.23 billion yen (about US$15.1 million by current conversion).

The 1982 Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space anime film holds the record for highest Japanese box office revenue in the Gundam franchise with a total of about 2.3 billion yen (US$15.5 million by current conversion).